montage-wrapper

A Python wrapper for the IPAC Montage mosaicking software

The montage-wrapper module (formerly python-montage) is an Astropy affiliated package that provides a way to run the Montage Astronomical Image Mosaic Engine from Python, including both functions to access individual Montage commands, and high-level functions to facilitate mosaicking and reprojecting. Once the IPAC Montage software is installed, installing the Python wrapper is straightforward:

pip install montage-wrapper

Once installed, using the Montage wrapper is simple - any Montage command has a Python function equivalent: